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The Next Big Thing Meme: The Waifs and Strays of Sea View Lodge
I’m delighted to have been tagged in a ‘meme’, which is an online chain letter. Each week a new writer posts answers to questions about a work-in-progress. Novelist, Penny Rudge, and playwright and...
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If I could read your mind…
A few months ago, my friend and fellow writer, Ben East, asked me why I write. I’ve been mulling over his question ever since. Given that writing has led me to eschew well-paid, permanent positions in...
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University of London
If I could read your mind: bringing the personal into the critical Date and Time: 15th January 2013, 5.00-6.30pm Location: Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University...
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The Memoir Garden
My Arts Council writing residency at Sunnyside Rural Trust has culminated in The Memoir Garden – a poetry collection that will be launched in Berkhamsted on 22nd May. I held monthly workshops and...
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Launch of The Memoir Garden
“This book demonstrates beautifully that people with learning disabilities have rich and textured emotions and experiences. I love this book. It made me cry, laugh and wish. Read it, and then think...
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Waterstones in Berkhamsted
I am delighted to announce that The Memoir Garden is now available to purchase from Waterstones in Berkhamsted, The Papertrail in Apsley, and Sunnyside’s Hemel Food Garden on Two Waters Lane. All...
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The Memoir Garden locally and nationally
The Memoir Garden poets have been spreading the word about our collection of poems from the words and experiences of adults with learning disabilities. The collection proved such a success locally...
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Anything else you think we should know?
When I came to evaluate my Arts Council Memoir Garden residency, it struck me that people with learning disabilities are subject to endless evaluation by social workers and carers, doctors and...
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The Writing Process Blog Tour
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone invited me to take part in the ‘Writing Process Blog Tour’, a journey through writers’ websites via questions about their work. I was particularly pleased that she thought of...
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